Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities

Paul Barrett is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing and the Culture and Technology Studies program at the University of Guelph.Sarah Roger is the project manager for the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.

• Introduction: Beyond the boundaries: digital humanities and Canadian literatureBoundaries and borderlinesCanada in DH, DH in CanadaQuickstart and contextsWorks citedPart I1. What is English Canadian literature?Histories of digital humanities and Canadian literatureThe shape of Canadian literary criticismNew critical formationsFurther readingWorks cited2. What Are digital humanities?What of the humanities?A provisional, historical, collaborative definitionMethodologicalTheoreticalMethodological + theoreticalFurther readingWorks CitedPart II3. Early interventions: the history of humanities computing and Canadian literatureEarly Canadian humanities computingEmerging organizationBurgeoning humanities computing communityTowards a digital humanitiesArtmobThe Orlando ProjectImplementing New Knowledge EnvironmentsA proliferation of projectsFurther readingWorks cited4. National literatures, infrastructural developments: emerging concepts of Canadian literature and digital humanitiesHumanism and the nationOther historiesInstitutional support for digital humanitiesNew institutional initiativesFurther readingWorks cited5. Digital humanities spaces: archives, collaboratories, laboratories, and centresDigital archivesCanLit and the digital archiveCollaboratoriesCollaboratory for Writing and Research on CultureEditing Modernism in CanadaSpokenWebDH laboratories and centresFurther readingWorks citedPart III6. Canadian literary criticism and the digital sphereSea change of the digitalCanadian critical interventionsEarly Canadian literatury-digital scholarshipThe Hypertext PrattThe Digital PageContemporary Canadian literary-digital projectsAMM BibliographyDistant Reading Mennonite WritingFred Wah Digital ArchiveThe People and the TextDigital poetics, creative praxisFurther readingWorks cited7. Canadian Literature as DataMethodological opportunitiesProject goals, methodological challengesExpanding DH’s rubricFurther readingWorks citedPart IV8. Intersectional digital humanitiesA call for (intersectional) actionSubjects and subjectivityProjectsThe Orlando ProjectLGBTQ+ and feminist archivesYellow Nineties 2.0Lesbian and Gay Liberation in CanadaPrinciples and practicesFurther readingWorks cited9. Race, power, and digital cultureDigital humanities and (the absence of) raceA call to actionRace, literature, and cultureChallenging the human in digital humanitiesFurther readingWorks cited10. Indigenous digital humanitiesData sovereignty and data managementProjectsVoices of the LandFourDirectionsTeachings.comKiinawin Kawindomowin / Story NationsNative Land Digital and Whose LandTerrastoriesThe People and the TextGreat Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin#HonouringIndgenousWritersLiterary interventionsFurther reading Works cited Part V11. Data acquisitionFinding dataLarge-scale text repositoriesAggregators and specialized archivesSupplementary materialsBorn-digital and emerging resourcesFrom corpus to curationFurther readingWorks cited12. Data managementRDM planning basicsBest practices through FAIR dataFindable dataAccessible dataInteroperable dataReusable dataLinked open data as a model for best practiceThe costs of data managementFurther readingWorks cited13. Steps towards analyzing textMinding the gapAnalyzing the corpus using GUI-based toolsAnalyzing the corpus programmaticallyText encodingText analysis using PythonSentiment analysisNetwork analysisTopic modelingFurther readingWorks cited14. ProgrammingBuilding blocksData typesControl structuresApplication Programming InterfacesLibrariesData cleaningBringing it all togetherFurther readingWorks cited15. Mary Prince and Susanna Moodie, a case studyStarting pointsMary Prince and Susanna MoodieData acquisitionAnalyzing the texts using VoyantAnalyzing the texts using PythonFurther readingWorks citedPart VI16. Future thinking: developments and predictions for the twenty-first centuryWorks citedAppendix I: Digital humanities laboratories and centres at Canadian universitiesCarleton University--HyperlabCarleton University--Cultural Heritage Informatics CollaboratoryMcGill University--Digital Scholarship HubMcMaster University--Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital ScholarshipSimon Fraser University--Digital Humanities Innovation LabToronto Metropolitan University--Centre for Digital HumanitiesUniversité de Montréal--Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériquesUniversity of Alberta--Digital Scholarship CentreUniversity of British Columbia Okanagan--AMP LabUniversity of Guelph--The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration LabUniversity of Ottawa--Labo de données en sciences humaines / The Humanities Data LabUniversity of Toronto--Critical Digital Humanities InitiativeUniversity of Victoria--Electronic Textual Cultures Lab / Digital Scholarship CommonsYork University--Digital Scholarship CentreAppendix II: Digital humanities projects, tools and platforms, resources, and organizationsProjectsTools and platformsResourcesOrganizations